Rituals of impermanence
RELIGION: 20,000 female Tibetan Buddhist Monks offer a glimpse into their religious exploration of life’s biggest questions.
Religion
A mosque shared by all
ISLAN: Female imam Seyran Ateş believes Islam needs a sexual revolution, resulting in Fatwas, bullets, death threats, and police protection.
The European administration and the lost children of al-Hol
FAMILY: European governments still refuse to repatriate their state members, including their children
What happened to Sweden?
FAMILY: After the death of his ISIS bride daughter, one man struggles to then free his multiple grandchildren from a Syrian prison camp.
«Returning directly to the past has no future»
DOK.fest München: Deputy Festival Director Artistic Director Adele Kohout and Programme Selection member Monika Haas on the festival’s 36th edition.
Alternative thinking for a better world
Democracy:The world has been and will always be changing, now probably faster than ever, and we must be all-inclusive, also to remain optimistic.
Everything we love is transient, fleeting, temporary
ESSAY: It is our self-understanding that is at stake today. With their aggressive, partly inflated subjects, Western technologists, economists, and artists have for centuries seen themselves above nature. In the ecosystem, man is in nature, he is a part of nature, on which he is completely dependent. Can we protect biotopes, habitats, rivers, lakes, soils, oceans and commons? This essay looks at five books examining the ecosystem.
A lost world in the name of God
RELIGION: A testament to the human and cultural destructive power of white, Christian arrogance.
Investigating religious power in Poland
RELIGION: The entertaining and self-reflecting Czech film crew embark on a surrealistic road movie to unveil the wickedness behind the facade of the Catholic Church in Poland.